Staff from the MiniStry of CultS and Religion Seized promotional material from a man claiming to be a BuddhiSt “god” on Sunday in Kandal province, officialS Said yeSterday. The operation waS conducted at Reachea pagoda, where Thean Vuthy had been promoting himSelf aS the fifth and SS='cambodia-color'>...

The government’s long-pledged health insurance scheme for private sector employees, including factory workers, is just around the corner, officials promised yesterday while refusing to name a more specific date. On Wednesday, the Ministry of Labour held a public forum on the insurance plan, which is expected ss='cambodia-color'>...

An annual vulture census carried out across Cambodia has recorded the second lowest population estimate for ten years. The new figures follow a major vulture poisoning incident that occurred in Cambodia’s Mondulkiri Protected Forest back in february when 13 vultures were found dead. This is the largest ss='cambodia-color'>...

Five hundred villagers in Preah Vihear province protested yesterday outside the office of FP Malaysia Plantation Company, which they say is attempting to take their land. Rith sothon, a village representative in Preah Vihear’s Kulen district, said the villagers filed a complaint after the company placed ss='cambodia-color'>...

In March, the Ministry of Labor for the first time began requiring union leaders to submit proof they had no previous criminal convictions before they would be allowed to register a new union or local branch. Now, the country’s leading unions say worker representatives are struggling ss='cambodia-color'>...

Experts say that Cambodia’s economic growth remains fragile and unsustainable, bringing environmental degradation, social inequality and, at times, unrest to the country. Cambodia has maintained a high economic growth rate in recent years, up to 8 percent, “but that high growth comes with high costs,” said ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Singapore-baSed Phillip Capital Group haS purchaSed a MalaySian-owned Hwang-DBS Commercial Bank in Cambodia for 40 million U.S. dollarS and rebranded it aS Phillip Bank on ThurSday, a bank&rSquo;S chief Said. Phillip Bank&rSquo;S chairman Lim Hua Min Said the Phillip Capital Group, which iS an ASian SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced last week a $30 million loan aimed at overhauling Cambodia’s technical and vocational education system (TVET). According to a september 26 statement issued by the ADB, the new funding will go towards launching a “competency-based” assessment and certification process, and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hopes that the ruling and opposition parties would finally reach full accord on a new National Election Committee draft law were dashed yesterday as talks foundered on the qualifications the secretary-general of the new institution must possess. After a meeting that lasted more than two hours, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three Cambodian men arrested in Thailand last week were returned to Preah Vihear province on Monday and claim they were tortured by the Thai military before being released, according to a military colonel in the area who provided a video of the men’s accounts. According ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Monday accused the CNRP of violating the “culture of dialogue” that he and the opposition agreed to last year, and warned seven lawmakers charged with incitement and insurrection that their parliamentary immunity would not save them from prison. The seven CNRP ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen broached the long-running issue of excessive overtime worked by garment factory employees in a speech yesterday, in what at least one analyst saw as a possible play for garment worker support. During his commencement speech at the National University of Management, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

After admitting there were “major problems” with its resettlement projects earlier this month, the World Bank has come under fire from Boeung Kak lake residents in a new report from a human rights group. The report by the International Accountability Project (IAP), titled Back to Development, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials in Battambang and Pailin provinces yesterday pointed to local cassava producers as the cause of water pollution there, which has killed fish and induced illness in families living along tainted streams. Nine of the businesses in Pailin’s O’Tavao commune that produce the root vegetable are ss='cambodia-color'>...

Over 40 per cent of Cambodian children under 5 years old suffer from stunted development due to poor nutrition, a rate that has not changed since 2010, according to data revealed yesterday by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). While Cambodia has put substantial work ss='cambodia-color'>...

Coca-Cola will build a second factory in Cambodia, investing $100 million into a new plant in the Phnom Penh special Economic Zone that will more than triple its current output, company officials said yesterday. The news comes on the heels of a meeting in November during ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia Bayon Airlines says it is getting closer to a launch date for its domestic services. The airline’s parent company, Bayon Holdings Limited ‘svice president, Taing Chung Leang, told local media that Cambodia Bayon Airlines plans its launch by the end of the year. “Bayon will sign ss='cambodia-color'>...

California-based real estate firm Century 21 enters the emerging Cambodian property market with today’s formal opening of its local operations in the country. According to Goos, the local franchise of Century 21 would concentrate on foreign buyers, especially on selling new condominiums, to avoid competing ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court will be seeing a lot of union leader Ath Thorn next week. From next Monday through Thursday, it has summonsed the president of the country’s largest independent union to three rounds of questioning over three separate cases in which Mr. Thorn ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new wetland protected area may be implemented in Battambang province following talks between scientists, Asian governments and conservation groups held in siem Reap this week. The message seems to have been heard, at least by the Ministry of Environment, which yesterday said it would ss='cambodia-color'>...